Have discovered Pilates (pronounced in a funny way: pill-ah'-tees.) I bought two books on this a year or two ago and learned one "wall roll-down" exercise that often helped me when my butt started aching. Now I've started really using one of the books in earnest. It's from the UK: Body Control, by Lynne Robinson et al. I like the slow and gradual approach in this book. After a few sessions from the book, I ordered a DVD from the same authors. Tonight I watched the introduction and did the warmup session that they recommend as the short version to use. I really didn't want to stop there. I like this a lot. I recommend getting the book first, though, because there are details in the book not mentioned in the DVD, as far as I can tell so far.
Just from starting to learn to breathe differently, and use different abdominal muscles than usual, I feel different - and better. This is going to work for me. I'm making this my main bodywork approach now.
The weight-lifting continues to make my right hand and wrist ache, so I'm going to stop for a while. From the Ganoskin Orchid mailing list, I learned about a book of stretching exercises that have really worked for many people with similar aches. It's called Conquering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, by Sharon J. Butler. (Subtitle is "And Other Repetitive Strain Injuries."
The book arrived yesterday and I started right in. The approach makes sense to me, looks ultra safe, and has worked for others. I'm confident that I can restore comfort to my hands - and lots more mobility to my wrist, elbow, and shoulder. I realize now that I'm still pretty far from being fully healed from breaking my elbow, even though the wires were removed over a year ago.
I feel happy about doing both the Pilates sessions and the upper body stretching. The two are going to work together well. Should provide some cartoon ideas along the way.
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